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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 555533" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>If you watch the video I linked to, they show a couch smouldering (they laid something on it to do this). A firefighter in a gas mask sits in the room with the smouldering couch, with 3 brand new ionization smoke deterectors in the same room. The room fills with more and more smoke, but none of them go off ... until the couch finally ignites. Like I said, over 30 mins later. If anyone had been sleeping nearby, they would have already inhaled a ton of smoke before hearing anything, and it might have been too late. </p><p></p><p>Scared the koi out of me. Age of detectors and placement clearly didn't matter in the test they ran. The ionization detectors just aren't designed for the smouldering type of fire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 555533, member: 1157"] If you watch the video I linked to, they show a couch smouldering (they laid something on it to do this). A firefighter in a gas mask sits in the room with the smouldering couch, with 3 brand new ionization smoke deterectors in the same room. The room fills with more and more smoke, but none of them go off ... until the couch finally ignites. Like I said, over 30 mins later. If anyone had been sleeping nearby, they would have already inhaled a ton of smoke before hearing anything, and it might have been too late. Scared the koi out of me. Age of detectors and placement clearly didn't matter in the test they ran. The ionization detectors just aren't designed for the smouldering type of fire. [/QUOTE]
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